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Garage Band Hangover

Hey has anybody on this site been on the website Garage Band Hangover?

Very cool site if you are into 60s obscure( is there any
other type?) garage bands. 100s of bands and 1000s of songs
that you can listen. In fact some of the songs would rival
most of the garage bands that charted. Vestells, Werps,
Humans, the Bucaneer's,Abstrack Sound, the Centurys, and
one of my favs: Pat Wallace's song: Fill the Hole ( gee
I wonder what that is about?) The Werps use of the trumpet
as a solo instrument with a Hammond B3 whipping it up.
Forgot how great the Hammond grooved with the garage sound!
All the songs are the same 3 chords as Gloria or Louie, Louie: E-A-D. Tons of teenage angst. Bragging rights. What is so cool about real garage band music, no Beatle re-treads ( or so little of it). Just kids that wanted to get laid, party all night and get revenge for the girls that cheated on them........you know real music as signals for self identification for a teenager of the 60s!

BTW: the site is divided up into states so you can look up who was who in the 60s for your state. I identified more with the NorthEast garage sound than I did the California psychedelic garage band sound. I was also surprised at the dearth of bands from the NorthWest, since that was the home of the Sonics, Paul Revere, and the Kingsmen. Texas really surprised me with the number of garage bands as well. Some of them were really rocking!

So who was your obscure fav garage band of the 60s?
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tostadosunidos
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Bdp, I do like Miss Lou Ann but, geez...she's not Janis.
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I do realize my opinion of Janis is a minority one. Same with Hendrix. That's okay, they get a lot of love from others. A singers voice is so personal, so intimate, isn't it? And so revealing of who he or she is, I sometimes feel like a voyeur while listening. By mentioning Lou Ann, I did not intend to compare her to Janis, it's just that they both come from Austin, and till the same soil, so to speak. Lou Ann is just so cool to me, and, for whatever reason, Janis is not. I am sometimes mystified at the popularity of a given singer or musician, just not hearing the why. That is the case with Janis. Taste, too, is very personal. Or maybe I just don't get her. That happens!
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I've been thinking about the why, Tostadosunidos. Janis strikes me as trying pretty hard to sound "bluesy", to sound Black, ya know? And the fact that it doesn't come naturally seems evident. Her voice sounds a little "pinched" to me, and kinda shrieky. Again, not comparing them (singing is too personal for that to be appropriate), with Lou Ann it just seems to pour out of her effortlessly, as it does from the best. They make it look so easy!
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Good people of Port Arthur gonna be unhappy w/BDP relocating Janis to Austin.
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I didn't say she was born there! ;-)
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